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.Jordan argued at this meet-ing that Hitler was right and that we should have been fightingworld Jewry and its associates in the Second World War and notGermany.Tyndall was even more blunt.He said that the Jew wasthe  assassin of Europe and like a  poisonous maggot in society.10For these offences Jordan received two months in jail and Tyndallsix weeks.Tyndall s sentence was later reduced to a fine after heargued on appeal that what he said about Jews was no worse thanAneurin Bevan s charge that the Tories were vermin.Prior to his first trial Jordan had created more publicity byannouncing that the NSM was to organize a summer camp wherean international nazi conference was to be held.As a result ofpressure from Labour, the trade unions and the Jewish com-munity, international delegates to the conference were bannedfrom entering the British Isles; but Jordan and Tyndall were ableto smuggle the American nazi leader, Lincoln Rockwell, into thecountry although he was deported before the camp.10Transcript of speeches of Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, NSM rally, 1 July 1962, File144.8, NCCL archive.NATIONAL SOCIALISTS AND RACIAL POPULISTS237The object of the conference was to set up a World Union ofNational Socialists.Those who eventually attended elected ColinJordan as world Führer and Rockwell was named his heir.In the Cotswold Agreement the object of WUNS was stated to be toform an international  combat efficient organization to opposeinternational Jewish communism and Zionism and to promote theAryan race.There was a long-term objective of the unity of whitepeople in a world order with complete racial apartheid.What dif-ferentiated WUNS and the NSM from other organizations on theextreme right was that it acknowledged the spiritual leadership ofAdolf Hitler and demanded a  final settlement on a world-widebasis of the Jewish problem.11Such blatant extremism led the authorities to move against theNSM by charging four of its leading members with offences com-mitted under Section 2 of the Public Order Act.This related to theparamilitary antics of NSM recruits in the Spearhead group organ-ized by Jordan and Tyndall.They were found guilty of causingreasonable apprehension that they were training for the use ordisplay of force in promoting political objectives.Jordan wassentenced to nine months, Tyndall six months and Roland KerrRitchie and Denis Pirie for three months each.Prosecutionevidence at the trial included allegations that Tyndall hadpurchased sodium chlorate weedkiller, suitable for makingexposives.One of these tins had  weedkiller crossed out andreplaced by  Jew-Killer.12After this conviction the unofficial self-protection units of theneo-fascist and racial populist political fringe were forced toconform, at least outwardly, to the law.Uniforms and paramilitarytraining were now outlawed, but the later Leader-guard of BritishMovement, and the Instant Response Unit and Colour Party ofthe National Front, were allowed to function.However, theextremists who believed in both offensive and defensive use ofphysical force went underground into more conspiratorialorganizations like Column 88, named after the Austrian nazi groupthat had gone underground when national socialism was bannedin that country in 1934.11Walker, The National Front, p.41.12Transcript of Spearhead Trial, File 172.2, NCCL archive.NATIONAL SOCIALISTS AND RACIAL POPULISTS238The preparations for the trials, the prison sentences and thepublicity associated with the antics of the NSM, led to the revivalof militant anti-fascist activity in the early 1960s.As the NSM lostits leadership as a result of the jail sentences it was the Mosleyiteswho bore the brunt of new anti-fascist anger.Mosley had alreadymade tentative suggestions that Bean and Jordan should becomethe national organizers of UM in 1962, but this was ignored.13Neither Bean s racial nationalism nor Jordan s  racialist twaddle ,as Mosley was later to call it, represented the mainstream of UMbeliefs.However, the hostility of anti-fascist groups and theattempt by the state to crush the NSM led to a reassessment oftactics once the jail sentences were served.Personal factors also became involved in an increasingly bitterfeud between Jordan and Tyndall for the leadership of the NSM.The cause of this was the French heiress Françoise Dior, who hadjoined the NSM in 1962.Courted by Jordan, she became engagedto Tyndall while the former was still in prison.On Jordan s releasethere was a competition for her affection which Jordan won.Jordan and Dior were married in a strange ceremony completewith nazi regalia, but separated after a few months.Brieflyreconciled, they were finally divorced in 1967.Tyndall neverforgave Jordan for stealing Dior s affections.Jordan was equallyincensed.He accused Tyndall and Webster of making disgustingtelephone calls to his wife whilst she was in Paris to try and ter-rorize her.14These incresingly bitter personal feuds and growing ideologicaldisagreements as to how far open support for nazi policies wasdetrimental to the growth of the NSM in British society led to asplit between Jordan and Tyndall in 1964.Tyndall, together withWebster and most of the headquarters staff, departed to form theGBM, leaving Jordan with the NSM name and the premises atPrincedale Road.Tyndall began a new magazine, Spearhead,which was to be his main base in the future history of the radicalright.The split led to a battle over which of the two organizations, theNSM or GBM would be recognized by WUNS.Jordan had been forcedto hand over his position of world Führer to Lincoln Rockwell13Walker, The National Front, p.44 [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]